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...partially surmised might be the case last Saturday in reprinting telegraphic accounts of a bowl-rush and "riot" at the University of Pennsylvania, the account given was considerably exaggerated and prejudiced. The following description of the rush from an impartial outsider, the New York Times, sets the matter in a better light. As a whole it cannot be said, however, that the affair reflects credit on either party. The students apparently put themselves in the position of an ungentlemanly mob, and as such deserved the correction they obtained. If for nothing less than a description of a curious-relic...
...chapel of the University of Pennsylvania was filled this morning with a mostly crowd of students dressed in knickerbockers and canvas jackets, eagerly awaiting the announcements of the term averages and the annual bowl-fight that was immediately to follow. The sophomores had on the grounds a ponderous wooden bowl about 2 1-2 feet in diameter and fully 2 inches thick, strongly dovetailed to resist the most powerful efforts of the freshmen to break it. The object of the sophomores in this annual fight is to put the last honor man of the freshman class into the bowl, while...
...fight over the bowl had meanwhile gone on. The freshmen raised the bowl over the Thirty-fourth street fire-plug to break it. The fire-plug broke under the heavy blows from the bowl. Finally, tired and soaked, the freshmen claimed the bowl by possession, and triumphantly carried it across the campus into the building...
...another column is an account of a disturbance created by students of the University of Pennsylvania. That they should have the privilege of indulging in their annual custom of "bowl breaking" as long as it only acts upon themselves will not be doubted. But that they should carry their festivities to such an excess as to destroy private property and thus create a public disturbance and breach of the peace is granting too much license even to students in an excited state and not easily controlled. It may be possible that the affair, as stated in the daily papers...
...SERIOUS AFFAIR.The following is a report of a disgraceful riot created by students in Philadelphia: "During the annual bowl breaking at the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday the crowd of excitable students got into the street, destroying considerable property. Some of them had their clothing badly torn, policemen remonstrated with the young men, but without avail. When the officers arrested George Danby, one of the participants in the melee, the crowd turned upon and assaulted the police, hurling bricks, stones and tin cans at them. Officer Murphy was struck on the head with a brick, and Officer Conner received...